Burhill Golf Club (New Course)

Overview: Burhill’s New Course occupies the Surrey estate south of the River Mole and offers a different experience from the club’s older parkland routing. It is an 18-hole course shaped around modern strategic questions, with water hazards and the river influencing both club selection and the order in which players attack the holes. The club describes the New as a championship layout, but the useful distinction is its setting and routing: it uses a mature estate landscape while presenting more contemporary hazard lines than the Old Course. The profile refers specifically to the New Course in Walton-on-Thames.

History: Construction of the New Course began in 1999 on much of the land that had previously carried Burhill’s South Course. The new routing opened in May 2001, and the clubhouse restoration was completed at the same time. That chronology is important because the current course is not simply a renamed version of the old South Course. It is part of a long-running estate golf story that began with Burhill Golf Club’s opening in 1907 and continued through changes forced by wartime land use and later redevelopment.

Did You Know? The River Mole is an active design feature rather than a distant boundary. The club highlights the New Course’s water hazards, including the river, and uses the 11th as a risk-and-reward par 5 where the fairway tightens near the green. The 18th is also described as a closing par 3, giving the routing a very different finish from the Old Course’s more traditional parkland character.